Tuesday, July 09, 2013

I get this question a lot: Which tests did doctors use on me to diagnose my food allergies. To which I reply: “None, I ate the food and had a swift and severe reaction.” Eating a food and either having a reaction, or not, is still the best diagnostic tool there is. Food allergy tests, skin or blood, may (or may) corroborate history but food allergy testing at this stage, is not a predictor of severity. However, there is still a lot of confusion around food allergy diagnosis on both the patient-side and sometimes even the allergist-side.

1 comment:

SO true! I've had allergist tell me my kid 'was allergic' based on testing and I knew it wasn't because he ate the foods daily.. and have been told allergies were gone due to blood and skin testings and they weren't.. The testings should be used as guidelines.. not definite answers~ thanks for sharing this info~

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